Discussions and Workshops

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Prof. Mel Rosenberg

www.ourboox.com

Are we becoming an illiterate world? (looking for discussion partner)

Classic Greek and Latin are history, Shakespeare is out, encyclopedias are dead, and who remembers Dylan Thomas? Will the alphabet soon be as obsolete as multiplication tables and slide rules? Are we becoming a world with a very short memory, shorter attention span, and no real need for literature? Should we care?